A window into life behind bars: Smuggled sketches offer glimpses into harsh Myanmar prison
Images smuggled out of Myanmar’s Insein Prison and interviews with eight former prisoners have given Reuters a rare glimpse inside the notorious institution…
US gig worker murders expose apps’ safety gaps, says labour group
Los Angeles, USThomson Reuters Foundation Two years after fleeing political persecution in Bangladesh, Salauddin Bablu was stabbed to death in Manhattan by a man who stole the electric bike he used to deliver food during long shifts for the Grubhub app. “When Salauddin died, his family lost everything,” Bablu’s brother-in-law, Muhammad Ahsan, said by phone […]
Essay: Ukrainian refugees might not return home, even long after the war eventually ends
In an article first published on The Conversation, SANDRA JOIREMAN, Weinstein Chair of International Studies and professor of political science at the University of Richmond, looks at what history shows about people displaced as a result of conflicts…
Sri Lanka calls for $US1 billion debt restructure as crisis rages
Colombo, Sri LankaReuters Sri Lanka must urgently seek funds from multilateral lenders and aim to restructure a debt payment due in July, its outgoing finance minister said on Thursday, pleading for political stability amid the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. The opposition and some partners of the ruling coalition rejected calls this week for […]
Postcards: The South African community hailed as a model for racial diversity
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Welbedacht, a community researchers say it could be a model for other places still scarred by apartheid…
Russian Patriarch says Orthodox faithful are holding back the antichrist
London, UKReuters The head of the Russian Orthodox faith was quoted as saying on Thursday that his church and its faithful were holding back the antichrist. Patriarch Kirill was speaking six weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has forced over four million people to flee, killed or injured thousands and left cities and towns […]